pyssimees kirjutas:minu andmetel polnud S. Colt relvameister vaid tubli ärimees kes ostis J. Pearsonilt ära trumlisse laetava revolvri patendi ja asus seda ise tootma 1836 a. Colt Pattersoni nime all.
Wikipedia (ja ka muud teatmeteosed) väidavad siiski vastupidist. Lühidalt tõlkides oli Colt revolvri leiutaja ja relvakompanii looja.
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862), born in Hartford, Connecticut, was the inventor of the Colt revolver, and founder of the Colt Firearms company.
Colt's father owned a textile mill, where the young Colt learned the principles of machinery. His work in the mill led to being a shipping hand, which then led to the aspiration to go to sea. At the age of 15, Colt left Connecticut and signed on as a sailor bound for India. Common legend holds that it was while observing the operation of the ship's capstan that Colt conceived the idea of revolving pistol.
Colt received a European patent for his revolver in 1835, and an American patent in 1836. , which produced the first production model of Colt's revolver on March 5 of the same year at Paterson, NJ. Due to slow acceptance of the revolutionary design, the Patent Arms company went into bankruptcy in 1842, and during the ensuing litigation that lasted through 1846 Samuel Colt produced no further pistols.
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